TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli government is teetering on the brink of collapse, its legislative body almost certain to be dissolved within days, and the catalyst is a largely symbolic draft law that few understand — and which may never actually pass.
Ministers spent four hours last week holding a stormy debate on a bill

JERUSALEM — The press here has been talking recently of a “silent intifada”: the city has been convulsed by violence for months, but most of it happens at night, bottled up inside the Palestinian districts of occupied East Jerusalem.
By Thursday afternoon, though, after two shootings and a day of clashes, the situation in